• Rentlar@lemmy.ca
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    22 hours ago

    In the article it reads that the FBI had taken over the server which the PlugX malware connects to. They had the server issue the command to machines that respond to PlugX remote requests, to have PlugX delete its own registry keys and generated files, then create a temporary script to uninstall PlugX and clean remaining traces, and finally run that script which deletes itself at the end.

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      13 hours ago

      So the fbi installed their own trojan on thousands of American computers, got it.

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        No send a signal to already infected devices with the control server of the bad actors them self.